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help with coin identification
yawnmoth wrote:
On Feb 10, 1:07 pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote: yawnmoth wrote: On Feb 9, 8:12 pm, yawnmoth wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/3171741...tp://www.flick... The coin with the hole in it is a five yen Japanese coin. There's also a single Japanese one yen coin in the pictures, but there are 3x other coins - seemingly of the same type - that I can't identify. There's what appears to be a dove or a chicken on one side and a building that looks a bit like the US state capital on the other side. Any ideas? Thanks, Mr. Jaggers and Ken Barr! Could I suggest you try to purchase a copy of the Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins? A used copy might set you back a ten-spot, but would be well worth your while to acquire. I actually have been consulting that. Though I've made quite a few posts here trying to get coins identified there are many many more coins I've not posted about because I have been able to identify them. The problem is when you're completely off base. Some earlier posts I've made have been about coins that were apparently from Pakistan and Israel and in those cases it never occurred to me to look up those countries. For Pakistan, I figured it was some country in the middle east, like Yemen, Qater, Iran, Iraq. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, etc. Pakistan just did not occur to me. Same thing for the Israeli coin. Because it was aluminum, I figured (incorrectly) that it was from southeast Asia. That said, for the coins in this thread, I should have seen them. I guess I just glossed over them or something. I thought they might have been from Vietnam, Korea, China. Taiwan, Singapore, etc. I don't know what all countries use kanji and am confident I'm, at times, even managing to misidentify kanji. For example, I have some coins from Ethiopia. Apparently they use Ge'ez script that I thought, for the longest, was Arabic. The only reason I even looked up Ethiopia was because it occurred to me that the person I got the coins from had been there and that I hadn't yet found any Ethiopian coins. Well, in point of fact, I actually had found Ethiopian coins, but I just hadn't realized it. Collecting and studying coins of the world helps one learn things about that world that simply do not come within the view of the great majority of the population. As the late, great Richard Yeo once said in his famous coin books, "The quest is the thing." Sounds as if you're getting a good education. Keep up the good work! James |
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